Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Framing the Question 1
4. I. North America as Market and Community 26
5. Part One. Less Than Meets the Eye: State Re-regulation via Regional Institutionalization
6. II. NAFTA’s Institutional Vacuum 47
7. III. NAFTA’s Uneven Judicial Capacity 72
8. IV. Transborder Labour Governance 94
9. V. Transborder Environmental Governance 113
10. VI. Transboundary Water Governance 138
11. Part Two. More Than Meets the Eye: Market Reconfiguration at the Continental Level
12. VII. The Role of Big Business in Negotiating Free Trade 163
13. VIII. Continental Energy (In)security 182
14. IX. Agriculture: Beef, Wheat, and Corn 205
15. Part Three. The Continent in Transition: Further Reconfiguration under Globalizing Pressures
16. X. The Steel Industry 231
17. XI. Textiles and Apparel 251
18. XII. The Governance of Capital Markets 276
19. Part Four. Not What Meets the Eye: Global Governance in North America
20. XIII. The Banking Sector 299
21. XIV. Labelling Genetically Modified Food 325
22. XV. Intellectual Property Rights and Big Pharma 343
23. Part Five. Just What It Used to Be: Persistent State Dominance
24. XVI. Border Security and the Continental Perimeter 363
25. XVII. North American Defence 394
26. XVIII. The Third Bilateral: The Mexico-Canada Relationship 417
27. XIX. The Security and Prosperity Partnership 435
28. Conclusion: Framing the Answer 452
29. Notes 473
30. Acknowledgments 557
31. Index 565